Plate
1808 (dated)
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Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Round the rim is a border of anthemia and vitruvian scrolls. In the middle is a still life group of four shells.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, painted by Thomas Baxter in London, Coalport Porcelain Factory, Coalport, dated 1808. |
| Physical description | Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Round the rim is a border of anthemia and vitruvian scrolls. In the middle is a still life group of four shells. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'T. Baxter 1808' (Signed and dated) |
| Credit line | Given by Herbert Eccles, Esq. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Gray, Jonathan. Herbert Eccles: chemist, collector, connoisseur. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 2011, vol. 22, pp. 149-172.
See pp. 168-169: ' Eccles's only publication on Welsh ceramics was contained in the Glynn Vivian's Catalogue of Loan Exhibitions which was published in 1914... A number of pieces illustrated in this Catalogue ended up as gifts to Museums. The Thomas Baxter Coalport plate (36) dated 1808 is now in the V & A, being part of the 'Chamberlain gift' in 1919...' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.258-1919 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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